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America Moves to Kill the Burner Phone and the Anonymous Call

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The anonymous phone, the kind a journalist hands a source or a woman fleeing an abuser buys with cash, may soon be impossible to obtain in the United States. A proposal moving q... Read More


China Switches On the World's First Underwater AI Data Center

SHANGHAI, June 10 -- While much of the world builds power-hungry data centers that drink rivers dry and strain electricity grids, China has just dropped one into the sea. The country has switched on t... Read More


Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Keeps Hacking WhatsApp, Defying a US Court

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 -- A US judge told the world's most notorious spyware company to stop hacking WhatsApp. According to Meta, it did not. The company has accused NSO Group, the blacklisted Israeli... Read More


Indonesia Seizes Control of Its Commodity Exports as Buyers Scramble

JAKARTA, June 10 -- The next electric-car battery, bag of cooking oil or tonne of power-station coal may now pass through a single office in Jakarta before it reaches the world. Indonesia has begun fo... Read More


Rivian Stakes Its Future on the R2 as Cheaper Chinese EVs Circle

NORMAL, June 10 -- Rivian began delivering its R2 sport utility vehicle on Tuesday, the make-or-break model the loss-making startup is counting on to reach the scale that finally turns an electric-car... Read More


Cholera Kills 74 in Nigeria's Borno as the World Looks Away

MAIDUGURI, June 10 -- The deaths in Borno this time are not from bombs or bullets. They are from water. A cholera outbreak tearing through Nigeria's northeastern Borno state has killed at least 74 peo... Read More


China's Exports Surge 19% as Trump's Tariff War Backfires

BEIJING, June 10 -- The trade war was supposed to wall China off from its biggest customer. Instead, China just sold more to the United States than at any point in five years. The country's exports su... Read More


South Africa's Economy Turns a Corner as Fitch Ends 21-Year Wait

JOHANNESBURG, June 10 -- For the first time in more than two decades, the news out of South Africa's economy is the kind its government has waited a generation to deliver. Africa's most industrialised... Read More


Tommy Robinson Surfaces in Moscow With Elon Musk's Father, Promising Some Trouble

The video, June 10 -- Tommy Robinson, the most recognizable figure on Britain's far right, spent Tuesday evening in the bar of Moscow's Hotel Metropol filming himself with Errol Musk, father of the wo... Read More


China Finally Got Inflation, and It Is the Kind Nobody Wanted

New Delhi, June 10 -- For two years China's problem was that prices would not rise. The problem that arrived on Wednesday is that the wrong ones now do. Factory-gate prices jumped 3.9 percent in May f... Read More